Museum > Ideal 65

The Ideal 65 is a
coal-fired sidearm heater, made of cast iron. You flip up the door on
top and dump in coal. Water enters at the bottom, is heated, and rises
into a storage tank.

There is a grate designed to flip and dump the ashes
into the bottom of the device. The open door permits removal of those
ashes.

A damper, seen in
the center of the ash door, provided temperature control. There is a hole
in it. A pull-chain hooked into that and to the flue, so that when the
flue started to heat up, it would damp the fire.